@rally_rachel · 31 Jan 2026 · 17:20
Britain and France have just put a missile battery on Iceland. Seven hundred miles from our people in Greenland. Pointed west. Pointed at us.
Remember who moved first here. It wasn't us and it wasn't today.
The battery was a French SAMP/T deployed at the invitation of the Icelandic parliament, eleven days after American Marines took Greenland by force. Nine days later a saturation strike destroyed it and killed nine of its crew.
A French missile battery. Seven hundred miles from our Marines. Eleven days after we secured the Arctic.
Everyone screaming about aggression this month suddenly has nothing to say about this one. Funny how the escalation ladder only counts when we are on it.
It is an air DEFENCE battery. It shoots down things that are flying at it. It cannot hit Greenland, it cannot hit a ship, it cannot hit anything that is not already attacking Iceland.
I am not being clever. That is what the letters SAM mean. If the presence of a defensive weapon on the territory of a country that invited it counts as provocation, then there is no such thing as defence and we should all stop pretending.
Five heavy transports land at Keflavik in sleet. Royal Marines, French fusiliers, a SAMP/T battery on the Reykjanes lava, and Typhoons on continuous patrol. Iceland's demilitarised…